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Admission Criteria
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    The following criteria will be used by admissions committees to evaluate their applicants:

    1. Academic record, including cumulative undergraduate grade-point
      average, achievement in required pre-professional courses, advanced
      degrees, and academic honors.

    2. Performance on the general test of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE).

    3. Veterinary, animal, and/or health science experience. This may include
      the care, knowledge, and experience gained working in a veterinary,
      agricultural, research, human health, and/or biomedical setting. Such
      experience should be of appropriate breadth and depth and should entail
      more than having provided routine care and feeding of companion animals
      or family pets.

    4. Letters of evaluation, which should be requested from persons who know
      the applicant well, understand academic and professional demands, and have
      had the opportunity to evaluate the applicant's personal qualities and
      potential as a veterinarian and veterinary medical student. Three letters
      must be submitted, one from each of the following areas:
      (1) Pre-professional - a pre-veterinary, premedical, or pre-professional
      committee or from a dean, advisor, or faculty member;
      (2) Academic - a faculty member in the applicant's major or who taught
      a required pre-professional science course. Applicants with graduate
      work should have an appropriate graduate school faculty member write this
      letter; and (3) Veterinarian/Biomedical Scientist - a veterinarian,
      research scientist, or project leader with whom the applicant has had
      considerable experience.

    5. An essay describing the applicant's choice of veterinary medicine as
      a career, motivation, and commitment to the veterinary profession, and any
      attributes and accomplishments that the applicant believes distinguish her
      among other candidates seeking admission.

    6. Extracurricular and community activities, committees, leadership roles, and
      employment not related to animals.

    7. Potential for contribution to and advancement of the profession.

    8. An interview conducted only at the invitation of the Committee on
      Admissions or the dean.

                -Adapted from the Tufts University
                School of Veterinary Medicine Website

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Pre-Professional Courses | Admission Criteria | How to Apply
preveterinarymail@wellesley.edu
Created by: Larissa Rochford &
Constance Fulenwider
Created: December 1, 2004
Last Modified: March 24, 2005
Expires: March 24, 2006